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Monday, April 11, 2022
at 9:00am -
10:00am
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Throughout much of Africa, during the past fifty years, there has been a re-emergence of ancient Jewish communities, and a surge of new Jewish communities, both with increasing populations. These communities, and their members, identify themselves to be part of the Jewish Diaspora and the Jewish People.
This extraordinary contemporary development in Jewish identity is taking place amidst increasing levels of global travel and communication are connecting African Jewish communities to Israel and other diaspora communities like never before. It can be argued that this phenomenon is connecting the Jewish people for the first time since the destruction of the Second Temple. These processes, combined with the present-day image of Israel in popular culture, have encouraged many Africans to want to be considered as part of the Jewish Nation, marking a remarkable turning point in Jewish history. Yet these positive developments are also taking place during a time of rising levels of global antisemitism, fundamentalism, extremism, and nationalism.
These realities also pose challenges to Jewish notions of peoplehood. In the interdisciplinary study of Judaism and Jewish studies, this situation is opening new analytical perspectives on the meaning of Jewish identity. This symposium will aim to better understand the multiple implications of what it means to be Jewish and Jewish-African in the 21st century.
Keynote SpeakersNatan Sharansky, Chair, ISGAPDr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, ISGAP; Director, ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme on Critical Antisemitism Studies, CambridgeDr. Edith Bruder, Department of Near and Middle East Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, CNRS; President, the International Society for the Study of African Jewry
Register here.
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Monday, April 11, 2022
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Films
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
This virtual event will take place on the online platform
Zoom. A link to join will be sent to registered guests via email one
hour before the start of the program.
Join the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a discussion on Holocaust and human rights films
moderated by museum historians and educators. This month's discussion on
Who Will Write Our History will be moderated by Dr. Sara
Abosch Jacobson, Barbara Rabin Chief Education Officer, and Felicia
Williamson, Director of Library and Archives.
We encourage participants to watch the film on their own before engaging in the discussion. Who Will Write Our History is available to rent on Amazon or watch free with premium subscription to Hulu.
Register here.
About Who Will Write Our HistoryIn November 1940, days after the Nazis sealed 450,000 Jews in the
Warsaw Ghetto, a secret band of journalists, scholars, and community
leaders decided to fight back. Led by historian Emanuel Ringelblum and
known by the code name Oyneg Shabbos, this clandestine group
vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda not with guns or fists but with
the ultimate weapon: the truth.
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Monday, April 11, 2022
at 7:00pm -
9:00pm
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Calendar:
Commemorations
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Location:
Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Campus of San Antonio JCC
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Description:
In cooperation with the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio and the Jewish Community Relations Council, join to learn about the genocide and remember the victims of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
SpeakersZachary Kaufman, JD, PhDStephanie Wolfe, PhDCapt. Daphine Batamuriza, RN-BSNCommissioner Providence Umugwaneza
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022
at 2:00pm -
3:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Against all odds, the very first civilian uprising against the Germans during World War II began 79 years ago on April 19, 1943 in the Warsaw ghetto. Outnumbered and outgunned, starving and oppressed, two Jewish groups led mainly by youth chose to fight rather than be sent to their deaths. Liz Elsby, educator at Yad Vashem, will explain the significance behind this inspiring event of the Holocaust.
Register here.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Visual archives offer tangible proof of the horrors that have befallen communities who have experienced genocide and mass atrocities. This event explores the importance of using photography to document the existence and destruction of Jewish and Native American communities. First, contemporary fine art photographer Jeremy Dennis will showcase his project, On This Site, which uses photography and an interactive map to highlight culturally significant Native American sites on Long Island. Then, curator, art historian, and art critic Maya Benton will discuss her work in creating both an exhibition and archive of the Russian American photographer Roman Vishniac (1897-1990)’s catalog of 40,000 objects through a partnership between the International Center for Photography and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Register here.
This event is a collaboration between the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and the Museum and Gallery Studies Program in the Art and Design Department at Queensborough Community College (QCC). It is co-sponsored by the Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College; the Ray Wolpow Institute at Western Washington University; the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University; the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center; and the Museum Studies MA Program at the CUNY School of Professional Studies.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022
at 7:00pm -
7:45pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Congregation Agudas Achim
Education Building
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Description:
Join THGAAC Director of Education Dr. J.E. Wolfson as he presents at Congregation Agudas Achim as part of Shalom Austin's YOMS Educational Electives.
Anne Frank’s diary is one of the most widely taught, read, and studied works of literature, and the diarist has been deemed the most famous child of the twentieth century. In many American classrooms, the diary and its adaptations to stage and cinema comprise the introductory curriculum for learning about the Holocaust. Why is this so? And is it a good thing that so many people form their first and lasting impressions of the Holocaust based on these works? This session will look at the limitations of the diary in Holocaust instruction; the evolution of how Frank’s story has been told, retold, and promoted by people other than herself; and what we should make of how audiences have received the various versions. As we shall see, while there is to be no denying Frank’s literary talents, other more dangerously insidious and even antisemitic factors have largely contributed to popularizing a mystique around Frank, which her lived experiences and own words have had only a minimal role in shaping.
Register here. This event is taking place in-person in the Education Building of Congregation Agudas Achim.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022
at 11:00am -
12:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
Join the Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College for a special conversation with Polish poet/post-rock musician Grzegorz Kwiatkowski who was born into a very particular history. His grandfather was a prisoner in Stutthof, the Nazi concentration camp east of what used to be the Free City of Danzig. Kwiatkowski’s music and poetry explore not only the conflicted past of Eastern Europe but also the paradoxes of contemporary genocides. Kwiatkowski is author of several books of poetry revolving around the subjects of history, remembrance, and ethics. He is a member of a psychedelic rock band Trupa Trupa.
Register here.
The event is organized by the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center in collaboration with the Department of English and the Creative Writing Club at Queensborough Community College, and is co-sponsored by the Ray Wolpow Institute at Western Washington University and the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022
at 6:00pm -
7:30pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Holocaust Museum Houston
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Description:
Join Holocaust Museum Houston for the first lecture in the Genocide Awareness Month lecture series, with the author of Plunder, Menachem Kaiser.
Menachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building, and with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer.” A surprise discovery—that his grandfather’s cousin not only survived the war but wrote a secret memoir while a slave laborer in a vast, secret Nazi tunnel complex—leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder. Propelled by rich original research, Kaiser immerses readers in profound questions that reach far beyond his personal quest. What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living? Plunder is both a deeply immersive adventure story and an irreverent, daring interrogation of inheritance—material, spiritual, familial, and emotional.
The event will be hosted in person. Admission is free, but advanced registration is required.
Register here.
Menachem Kaiser holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and was a Fulbright Fellow to Lithuania. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, New York, BOMB, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022
at 6:00pm -
7:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
LOVE, LIES, & JUSTICE: From East West Street to The Ratline with Philippe Sands, Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals & Professor of Law, University College London
Professor Sand’s book East West Street examines
the stories of the two men who, simultaneously, in the same city, and
unknown to each other, originated the concepts of “genocide” and “crimes
against humanity.” It won the British Book Award in 2017. The Ratline is the story of one Nazi official, his attempt to escape capture after the war, and the legacy borne by his son.
Please click here to fill out the form and to register for this event through Zoom.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022
at 7:00pm -
8:00pm
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Erik Jonsson Academic Center, JO 4.614
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Description:
Spring Lecture Series: "'Germans Must Not Bury Their History': The Wannsee Conference in the Latin American Imaginary"
Join the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas for the
third and final talk of their annual Spring Lecture Series. Dr. Pedro
Gonzalez Corona will present "'Germans Must Not Bury Their History: The
Wannsee Conference in the Latin American Imaginary." This lecture will
explore the various channels of representation of the Wannsee Conference
in Latin America and the public responses to it.
Dr. Pedro Gonzalez Corona is an assistant professor of instruction in
the School of Arts and Humanities, teaching both undergraduate and
graduate courses focusing on the ideas of race and human rights.
He is also the assistant to the director of the Ackerman Center for
Holocaust Studies, and his administrative work assisting Dr. Roemer
includes building collaborative relationships across the world with
other universities, organizations, and museums for our students.
Additionally, he currently has a fellowship with the Institute for the
Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. He earned his PhD in
History of Ideas from UT Dallas in 2019 after successfully defending
his dissertation titled, Genealogy of Racism in Mexico: Technological Devices of Race and Their Transformation in Modern Mexico.
PARKINGParking is available in any of the numbered metered spots in Lot M West (follow the event signs from the main University entrance off Campbell). You can use the parking coupon code 41246032 for complimentary parking.
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Friday, April 15, 2022
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
N/A
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Description:
It is possible that Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission staff who observe Good Friday will be out of the office.
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Friday, April 15, 2022
(all day)
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Calendar:
General
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Location:
N/A
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Description:
It is possible that Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission staff who observe Passover will be out of the office.
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Monday, April 18, 2022
(all day)
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
N/A
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Description:
Theological Encounters of Race, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust in Transatlantic Context
June 17-24, 2022 | Virtual
The 2022 Annual Faculty Seminar on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust will
examine the multifaceted encounters between Black American Christians
and Jews in both the United States and Europe from the 1920s to the
present. We will consider both the personal interactions and
trans-Atlantic experiences of Black Christians and Jews in the years
before, during, and after the Holocaust, as well as the transnational
circulation of ideas that shaped Christian and Jewish theological
understandings of and responses to persecution.
Topics will include: the ways in which both Jews and Black Americans
have had commonalities of experiences of persecution based on Christian
theological principles; how cross-cultural experiences of religious
leaders such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King Sr. and Jr.
shaped their views of their own communities; the responses of some
European Jewish refugees, such as Abraham Joshua Heschel, to the Black
church and civil rights movement; and how Black theologians have engaged
the history of antisemitism and the Holocaust.
The seminar will be led by Dr. Beverly Mitchell,
Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History, C.C. Goen and
Douglas R. Chandler Church History Chair at Wesley Theological Seminary,
Washington, DC and Dr. Benjamin Sax, Jewish Scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, Baltimore, MD.
Seminar Format:
The seminar will be conducted entirely online through a combination
of synchronous and asynchronous elements over five days between June 17 and June 24, 2022
(June 20 is a holiday). Participants can expect to attend no more than
four hours of synchronous sessions in the virtual classroom per day
(June 17; 21-24, 2022). Additional daily asynchronous activities will
include independent readings, pre-recorded lectures, and online forums.
Opportunities for informal networking and small-group meetings will be
facilitated via the seminar’s digital platform. A full agenda and
reading list will be provided one month before the start of the seminar
through the Seminar’s digital platform.
Eligibility:
Applications are welcome from professors, instructors, and advanced
doctoral students who are currently teaching or preparing to teach
courses that could potentially integrate the Holocaust and related
topics into their lectures, assignments, activities, or campus events
(teaching an entire course on the Holocaust is not required). We welcome
applicants from any religious tradition or denominational affiliation.
Clergy and religious professionals who are engaged in adult Christian
education or part-time teaching will be considered. Faculty based in
institutions outside North America will also be considered if they meet
the criteria above.
Admission will be determined without regard to race, color,
religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age,
disability, genetic information or reprisal. The Museum also prohibits
any form of workplace discrimination or harassment.
Application Details:
Applications must include: (1) a curriculum vitae; (2)
a statement of the applicant’s specific interest in strengthening their
knowledge of the seminar’s topics, and Holocaust Studies more broadly,
for the purpose of teaching (500 words) (3) a letter of support from a dissertation advisor, departmental chair, or dean addressing the applicant’s qualifications; and (4) a draft syllabus on a topic that could potentially incorporate any of the topics that the seminar will address.
Participants must commit to attending the entire seminar. A complete
syllabus will be made available to participants in advance of the
program. Participants who complete all components of the seminar will
receive a $500 honorarium.
Applications must be submitted by April 18, 2022 and can be submitted online. Letters of support may be uploaded electronically or sent directly to Julia Liden, Program Coordinator, at jliden@ushmm.org. Applicants will be notified of the results of the selection process by April 25th.
Click here for more information and to apply.
This workshop is made possible by the Hoffberger Family Fund and by Joseph A. and Janeal Cannon and Family.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022
at 9:00am -
10:00am
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Calendar:
Speaking Engagements
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
This program is taking place online on the actual date of liberation for Maud Dahme, a Holocaust survivor from The Netherlands. You will hear testimony from Maud and see a virtual tour of the Montreal Holocaust Museum exhibit. This exhibit from Canada is essential to Maud’s story of liberation as the Canadian troops went in to the Netherlands to liberate this country. You will hear Maud’s remembrances of her liberation and joy upon seeing the Canadian troops on this significant day.
Register here.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022
at 3:00pm -
4:00pm
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Calendar:
Workshops
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Location:
Zoom
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Description:
The “Holocaust by Bullets” was the model for mass extermination of Jews and Roma during the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, while the Nazi’s addressed the extermination of persecuted groups differently in the west. During this Echoes & Reflections webinar, an educator from Yahad – In Unum, an organization dedicated to identifying sites of mass execution and gathering evidence of these massacres in Eastern Europe, will share classroom resources for sharing this history with students.
Register here.
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